The strength of the Bolshevik Party, the only workers' party in world history that rose from a small group to the ruling party of the second largest empire in just under a quarter of a century, consisted from the outset in the fact that it recognized the true meaning and significance of the revolutionary work of the party at the sites of labor and exploitation - in the factories. In The Dawn of Bolshevism (1902), Lenin already propagates the necessity of forming "work circles" in the factories, which later developed into factory cells. He writes:
"The main force of the movement consists in its organization of the workers in the large factories, because the large factories comprise not only the majority of the working class in terms of numbers, but also the majority in terms of influence, development and ability to fight. Every factory must be our stronghold." (1902)
The influence of the party in the factories was what the Bolshevik Party fought for against Menshevism, reformism and opportunism. This fight lasted from the founding of the Bolshevik Party until the first failed revolution of 1905, during the revolution and in the years of the revolution after 1905. In 1908, Lenin wrote:
"A solid, illegal organization of party centers, a systematic illegal publishing activity, but above all local and especially company cells of the party under the leadership of the best workers themselves, who live in direct contact with the masses - that is the basis on which we build and have built the unshakable core of the revolutionary and social-democratic [today it would not be called "social-democratic" but "communist" - the editorial team] labor movement." (1908)
It can be said that Bolshevism grew and strengthened to the extent that the Bolsheviks' work in the factories gained a firm foothold. The basis of the Bolshevik Party, its foundation, was the factory cell. And as it was before the conquest of power, so it must be again today and tomorrow.
The Lenin Party paid the greatest attention to the work in the factories. In all non-party organizations, at congresses, at conferences and in elected organs, communist factions were formed, whose task it was to strengthen the influence of the party among non-communists. That was and remains the fundamental idea of Lenin about the party cells in the factories!
Comrades of the Comintern (SH)!
Learning from Lenin means learning to win!
Strengthen your work in the factories in 2025 and start organizing factory cells!
Let's turn every large company in the world into our world Bolshevik fortress!
Wolfgang Eggers
December 6, 2024
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